ZBS Capital

ZBS Capital is a venture capital firm based in Kyiv, focused on the crypto, blockchain, and Web3 sectors. It backs early-stage projects by providing financing and strategic advisory to help progress technology development, tokenomics, and growth plans. The team combines expertise across blockchain, marketing, and finance, with a global perspective. The firm emphasizes rigorous, fundamentals-driven evaluation, including technology progress, social impact, and market readiness, to guide investment decisions and support portfolio companies in achieving milestones and broader ecosystem goals.

Nikita Piholenko

Co-Chief Investment Officer and Partner

Vladyslav Skakun

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Past deals in Smart Contracts

Ondefy

Seed Round in 2024
Ondefy is a financial trading platform that lowers entry barriers to decentralized finance, providing users with the ability to swap tokens across any blockchain, generate yield, leverage assets, and access DeFi protocols from a single secure interface.

SatoshiSync

Seed Round in 2024
SatoshiSync is the chain agnostic protocol for inscriptions and BTC L2, simplifying BTCFi liquidity. It pioneers permissionless inscription markets on BRC20, enabling easy customization and one-click bridging to ERC20 or EVMs.

BonusBlock

Seed Round in 2024
BonusBlock is a platform that facilitates on-chain engagement and user onboarding for various blockchain projects. It aims to attract, onboard, and advance users by collaborating with diverse projects such as Injective, XION by Burnt, Nibiru, EclipseFi, among others.

Hedgehog Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Hedgehog Protocol develops a modular synthetic blockspace protocol for on-chain trading. Its platform enables minting of derivatives backed by multiple collaterals to hedge and trade gas fees, allowing cryptocurrency traders to interact in the gas derivatives market.

DeXe Protocol

Seed Round in 2024
DeXe Network is a decentralized financial services platform specializing in social trading and asset management. It operates under the governance of the DeXe DAO, utilizing the DEXE ERC-20 native utility token for various platform activities. DeXe Network aims to empower users by providing tools for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), social trading, and asset management, emphasizing community-driven decision-making and financial autonomy. The platform includes features like W2W Copying, allowing users to replicate the trades of successful traders for a fee, thereby democratizing access to trading strategies and enhancing user engagement within the ecosystem.

FantomStarter

Seed Round in 2023
FantomStarter facilitates investment rounds for blockchain startups with robust business plans. Its decentralized platform streamlines regulatory compliance and enables approved projects to raise funds across various blockchains.

Polylastic

Seed Round in 2023
Polylastic develops a blockchain platform focused on secure, scalable, and instant transactions. Its platform combines blockchain scaling tools with a user-centric approach, aiming to enhance the usability of decentralized transactions and facilitate mainstream blockchain adoption.

IQ Labs

Seed Round in 2022
IQ Protocol develops a decentralized money market for digital asset renting and on-chain subscriptions. It enables digital asset owners to earn passive income by safely lending their NFTs & Fungible Tokens.

Mecha Morphing

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Mecha Morphing is a browser-based, decentralized play-to-earn action role-playing game (ARPG). It offers player vs. environment (PVE), player vs. player loot mode, PVP arena, and bounty systems. Players can earn digital currency by engaging in these modes and invest in weapons, mecha armor pieces, land, and characters to upgrade their character's weaponry and non-fungible tokens.

MyCointainer

Seed Round in 2022
MyCointainer is a technology-driven company specializing in the cryptocurrency sector, focusing on creating accessible solutions for users. The company operates a digital wallet that simplifies entry into the crypto economy, allowing users to earn rewards through methods such as staking, master nodes, and airdrops. MyCointainer aims to enhance the user experience in the decentralized economy by providing a platform that is both easy to navigate and secure. With a commitment to transparency, the company has obtained the necessary financial licenses to foster a safe environment for its users and partners. By connecting communities globally, MyCointainer plays a pivotal role in promoting the adoption of cryptocurrency and related technologies.

Fantom Maker

Seed Round in 2022
Fantom Maker is a company that specializes in project launch and fundraising software aimed at facilitating investments in innovative projects within the Fantom ecosystem. The platform offers a range of services, including white-label liquidity solutions, compliance support, marketing assistance, and advanced staking programs. By providing these tools, Fantom Maker enables businesses to effectively expand their user base and product offerings while capitalizing on growth opportunities. The company is committed to streamlining the investment process, making it easier for stakeholders to support promising initiatives in the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape.

Kudo Labs

Corporate Round in 2021
Kudo is building an ecosystem of DeFi and web 3.0 products like Unomi and Bitquity for mainstream crypto adoption.

Voltage Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Voltage Finance is a decentralized finance platform that provides users with a comprehensive suite of financial tools for exchanging crypto assets. Designed with a user-friendly interface, Voltage allows for seamless trading without incurring fees. The platform operates on a non-custodial basis, ensuring users retain control of their assets while benefiting from automated trading solutions. Accessible on smart devices, Voltage Finance aims to enhance the efficiency of trading compared to traditional exchanges, making advanced financial tools available to a broader audience.

Harmony Launcher

Seed Round in 2021
Harmony Launcher is a pioneering decentralized launchpad and incubator designed to support startups and projects on the Harmony blockchain. It specializes in initial game offerings (IGOs) and initial decentralized offerings (IDOs), providing essential resources for projects to build, raise funds, and launch effectively. The platform facilitates crowdfunding through a secure and compliant environment, allowing token-based projects to establish fixed swap pools at predetermined token purchase rates. Harmony Launcher also offers features such as a vesting schedule for token releases, whitelisting for project participants, and various marketing options to enhance project visibility and success.

Victoria VR

Venture Round in 2021
Victoria VR develops a blockchain-based virtual reality metaverse platform offering multiplayer online role-playing games, entertainment, and other activities. The platform uses Unreal Engine to create realistic graphics and enables users to earn rewards for their actions within the virtual world.

OnGO

Funding Round in 2021
OnGO is a software company that provides blockchain, web3, and crypto-based product design, as well as development services.

Polygen

Seed Round in 2021
Polygen innovates in blockchain launchpads by removing intermediaries and gatekeepers, fostering transparency, automated processes, and providing post-launch support. Its decentralized platform enables anyone to launch projects fee-free.

zkLink

Seed Round in 2021
zkLink is a blockchain infrastructure company offering a multi-chain trading platform that unifies blockchain networks and addresses Ethereum fragmentation through aggregated rollups. Its solutions use zero-knowledge proofs to enable secure cross-chain transactions and to aggregate liquidity from isolated networks, supporting high-throughput decentralized applications. The platform provides customizable rollup architectures, including app-specific options, to unify tokens and liquidity across Ethereum Layer 2s and to give developers cost- and performance-efficient interoperability.

Clearpool

Seed Round in 2021
Clearpool operates a decentralized capital markets ecosystem that lets institutional borrowers create single-borrower liquidity pools and access uncollateralized liquidity from the DeFi ecosystem. Liquidity providers fund these pools to earn yields, with rewards provided in the platform’s native tokens. The system uses tokenized credit mechanics to support risk management and liquidity hedging. By connecting traditional capital markets with decentralized finance, Clearpool enables flows between the two realms and offers borrowers the ability to compare, select, and exit pools; participants receive tokens in return, redeemable at any time without lock-up. The company focuses on delivering a transparent, programmable framework for institutional-grade liquidity.

Mines of Dalarnia

Funding Round in 2021
Mines of Dalarnia is a blockchain-based adventure mining game and platform that combines single- and multiplayer modes. Players explore levels to mine relics and artifacts, upgrade gear, and progress through challenges. The game supports ownership of in-game land plots with a rental economy where plots can be leased to other players. Governance is enabled for token holders, who can vote on proposals related to land economy, miner policies, and other game development decisions. The platform also features an NFT marketplace for cosmetics and minerals and allows users to send, receive, and exchange digital assets within a single ecosystem.

Chainflip

Seed Round in 2021
Chainflip is a decentralized protocol facilitating trustless asset trades between different blockchain networks with minimal slippage. It enables direct cross-chain exchanges of cryptocurrencies without intermediaries, utilizing its native blockchain and ecosystem components built on Rust and other frameworks. This allows investors to transfer funds seamlessly across various blockchains and ecosystems without additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets.

Dtravel

Seed Round in 2021
Dtravel is a decentralized platform for the home-sharing economy that supports short- and long-term stays and accepts cryptocurrency alongside traditional payment methods. It operates without intermediaries by returning ownership, control and decision-making to hosts and guests through blockchain technology, promoting transparency and reducing fees in the home rental market. The platform aims to empower guests to shape their travel experiences while maintaining community transparency and trust.

Composable Finance

Venture Round in 2021
Composable Finance develops infrastructure to enable a multi-layer, multi-chain future for Ethereum and other Layer 1 blockchains. It builds cross-layer, cross-chain interoperability technology that connects Ethereum layer-two solutions and allows smart contracts from different Layer 1 networks to run together on a single parachain, enabling liquidity fragmentation and broader financial and creative freedom for developers and traders.

Lossless

Venture Round in 2021
Lossless is a Web3 security architecture focused on mitigating exploits and enhancing security in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The company employs a community-driven approach to identify threats, utilizing a unique stake-based reporting system to effectively monitor suspicious on-chain activities. Its platform allows white hat hackers to develop hack-spotting bots and scan transactions, enabling users to freeze and recover fraudulent transactions based on established identification parameters. By prioritizing the creation of a trusted environment, Lossless aims to minimize losses from hacks, exploits, and social engineering attacks, thus promoting safer interactions within the digital asset landscape.

Meme.com

Seed Round in 2021
Meme.com is a platform focused on meme markets and trend exploration. It offers a content management system that enables users to engage with meme tokens, allowing them to stake these tokens to promote the creation of specific memes. Users can also mint memetic tokens, which reflect the perceived value of various trends or memes. This innovative approach facilitates a dynamic environment for users to participate in the evolving landscape of meme culture and capitalize on its trends.

Cryptocurrencies.Ai

Venture Round in 2021
Cryptocurrencies.Ai Inc. is a Brooklyn-based company that specializes in providing software solutions for traders and investors in the cryptocurrency market. Founded in 2018 by Hisham Khan and Shann Bernard, the company offers a trading platform that incorporates both centralized and decentralized components. Its services include portfolio rebalancing, risk analysis for diversification, and tools for backtesting and optimizing trading strategies. By focusing on delivering intelligence to users, Cryptocurrencies.Ai aims to enhance decision-making and improve overall trading performance in the evolving landscape of digital currencies.

Moma Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Moma Protocol is a developer of financial software that addresses the increasing demands for liquidity, scalability, and speculation within decentralized finance (DeFi) lending markets. It utilizes a proprietary smart contract factory to create, manage, accelerate, and aggregate lending markets, fostering an ecosystem that promotes unlimited lending liquidity and market diversity. This innovative approach allows users to customize various parameters, including the types of crypto assets involved, enhancing their lending experiences. Supported by Lichang, a community application with over a million registered users, Moma Protocol has gained recognition within the crypto community for its potential to improve the scalability of the DeFi lending market since its inception.

Shield Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Shield Finance is a multi-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) insurance aggregator that operates across several prominent blockchains, including Polkadot, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana. The company has developed a proprietary aggregation engine designed to offer customized insurance packages tailored to meet the specific needs of investors. By providing protection against significant market downturns caused by unexpected events, Shield Finance aims to enhance the security and confidence of users participating in the DeFi ecosystem.

The Dapp List

Seed Round in 2021
A community-driven platform facilitating Web3 adoption across multiple chains. It aims to bridge the divide between Web2 and Web3 users.

SingularityDAO

Seed Round in 2021
SingularityDAO develops artificial intelligence technology to enhance operational efficiency and profit optimization. Its platform offers dynamically managed portfolios that adapt to evolving market conditions, enabling clients to manage a portfolio of decentralized finance tokens through a single interface.

X World Games

Seed Round in 2021
X World Games is a decentralized gaming platform building a diversified ecosystem that connects traditional gamers with the blockchain world. It provides a virtual world where players can trade NFTs, create and tokenize in-game items, and participate in social crypto gaming communities. The company has developed Dream Card, an NFT marketplace, and a DeFi pool as part of its gaming innovations, and serves a growing community of gamers globally. Headquartered in Singapore, X World Games operates with a large international team and aims to invite more developers into the crypto space by providing the underlying blockchain framework.

Phuture

Seed Round in 2021
Phuture is a cryptocurrency index platform focused on offering users passive exposure to cryptocurrency assets through innovative financial products. The company develops on-chain index funds and structured products that simplify the investment process, allowing users to engage with the cryptocurrency market without dealing with its inherent complexities. By providing comprehensive sector exposure, Phuture's index products facilitate the generation of yield on the underlying assets. The platform emphasizes transparency and trustlessness, integrating seamlessly within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem to enhance accessibility for investors seeking to optimize their returns.

BENQI Corpo

Funding Round in 2021
Developed by an experienced team of blockchain designers, BENQI is a protocol to unlock greater liquidity within the defi market. BENQI enables defi users to make their assets work harder to generate additional yield. Built on Avalanche’s high speed smart contract network, BENQI will evolve into a cross-chain defi hub that’s positioned at the heart of decentralized finance.

Spherium.Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Spherium is a multi-chain incubation and grant program. They connect the two through a transparent, non-custodial, and user-friendly one-stop DEFI financial system. They access the decentralized ecosystem, such as decentralized exchanges, protocols, staking, mobile wallets, and cross-chain transfer systems such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Avalanche.

Automata Network

Seed Round in 2021
Automata Network is a decentralized protocol that offers middleware-like privacy services for decentralized applications across various platforms, including Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain. Its focus is on delivering traceless privacy, which enhances user trust in computing systems by ensuring the authenticity of operations on-chain. By facilitating high assurance and frictionless computation, Automata Network aims to empower clients to maintain privacy while engaging in decentralized activities.

Idavoll DAO

Seed Round in 2021
Idavoll is a cross-chain DAO platform that provides the best toolbox to create, manage, democratize, and monetize your decentralized community.

Convergence Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Convergence Finance operates as a decentralized interchangeable asset protocol focused on facilitating the exchange of tokenized real-world assets. By leveraging blockchain technology and smart contracts, the company has developed a decentralized exchange platform that employs an automated market maker model. This innovative approach aims to enhance liquidity for tokenized assets, thereby transforming trading practices for both real-world and crypto-native investments. Convergence Finance prioritizes greater transparency and inclusivity, making it easier for all investors to access and trade these assets.

Royale Finance

Series A in 2021
Royale Finance specializes in providing cross-chain decentralized finance services tailored for the iGaming industry. The company develops a user-centric platform that facilitates Web 3.0 smart-backed liquidity, empowering iGaming entrepreneurs to foster innovation while ensuring security and transparency through blockchain technology. By enabling these entrepreneurs to access funding from a network of participants who are incentivized to contribute capital, Royale Finance enhances the financial landscape within the iGaming sector, promoting growth and sustainability.

Massa

Seed Round in 2020
Massa is a decentralized blockchain ecosystem aimed at mass adoption. It enables cryptocurrency payments and smart contract functionality, with planned coin distribution designed to give the community full control and safeguard the database. The platform seeks to address the scalability, decentralization, and security trade-offs with multithreaded technology to support fast, secure transactions while maintaining data integrity.

DIA

Funding Round in 2020
DIA is a decentralized data and oracle platform designed for Web3, focusing on the aggregation and validation of transparent and verified data feeds. It enables crowd-sourcing of data related to asset prices, metaverse information, and more. By sourcing data at a trade level from a variety of on-chain and off-chain sources, DIA provides developers with reliable access to comprehensive data sets across multiple layer 1 and layer 2 networks. The platform serves as a crucial bridge between off-chain data and on-chain smart contracts, facilitating the development of diverse financial applications. DIA aims to create a fair and symmetric financial ecosystem by granting clients open-source access to crowd-verified financial data.

NEAR

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
NEAR is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run decentralized applications. It offers NEAR Protocol, a scalable smart contract platform with decentralized storage and compute capabilities, along with developer tools such as documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer. The platform supports a broad ecosystem of components and aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream software by refining the development experience and enabling agents and clients to own assets, make decisions, and transact across networks. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.

Kattana

Seed Round in 2020
Kattana is a cross-chain trading platform and desktop trading terminal that enables users to trade cryptocurrencies across multiple exchanges from a single account, covering the needs of professional traders. The platform supports trading on both decentralized and centralized exchanges and includes technical analysis tools, portfolio management, and automation of trading strategies. It facilitates secure operations with encrypted channels for exchange deposits during trading sessions, helping users manage risk and workflows within one interface.

Nexus Mutual

Seed Round in 2019
Nexus Mutual Limited is a London-based company that operates a decentralized insurance platform utilizing blockchain technology, specifically the Ethereum public blockchain. Founded in 2017, it offers a novel alternative to traditional insurance by enabling users to become members and collectively share insurance risks without the involvement of conventional insurance companies. Members can purchase coverage, and their decisions are governed by smart contracts, which ensure transparency and enforceability. Initially, Nexus Mutual launched with a product focusing on earthquake coverage, allowing participants to manage and mitigate risks collaboratively. The platform aims to recreate traditional mutual insurance models on a broader scale, providing an innovative approach to risk management in the insurance industry.

CERE Network

Corporate Round in 2019
CERE Network is a blockchain-based company that specializes in developing a customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem designed for data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CERE Network offers a platform that extracts customer data from various monolithic and disparate CRM and customer data platform systems. This platform provides an open micro-services environment that facilitates data collaboration and integration between businesses and vendors. Additionally, CERE Network utilizes blockchain technology to capture the entire customer journey, securely storing key user data such as purchases and achievements in user wallets. The company also introduces its own tokens, which are used for payment within its ecosystem.

Band Protocol

Seed Round in 2019
Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that securely connects real-world data and APIs to smart contracts. It enables blockchain developers to create reliable price feeds, event reports, and other data oracles for decentralized applications without relying on centralized sources.

Polygon

Corporate Round in 2019
Polygon is a blockchain scalability platform designed to enhance the usability and convenience of decentralized transactions. By offering a structured and user-friendly environment for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development, Polygon aims to address the slow, expensive, and complex nature of current decentralized systems. The platform combines various scaling solutions and development tools, prioritizing user experience to facilitate quicker and more secure transactions. Polygon's mission is to drive mainstream adoption of blockchain technology, enabling a more accessible and efficient decentralized ecosystem.

Risk Labs

Venture Round in 2018
Risk Labs is the foundation and core team behind the Across and UMA Protocols.

bZx

Seed Round in 2018
bZx is a financial software developer focused on creating innovative solutions for margin trading, borrowing, and lending within the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. The company specializes in the development of tokenized margin loans and positions, which enhance the flexibility and efficiency of financial transactions. By replacing traditional middlemen with software, bZx aims to offer sustainable and efficient financial applications that are accessible without intermediary costs. Founded by Tom Bean, who has extensive experience in engineering and team leadership, bZx operates with a globally distributed and fully remote team, allowing it to attract top talent from around the world. The company's products can be seamlessly integrated into existing exchanges, enabling a more streamlined experience for lenders, borrowers, and traders in the evolving financial landscape.

Aragon

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Aragon is a blockchain-based platform that enables the creation and governance of organizations, including decentralized autonomous organizations, by providing modular tools for governance, contract upgrades, and a decentralized court. The platform aims to disintermediate bureaucratic overhead and empower individuals to manage entities such as companies, projects, NGOs and foundations in a borderless, permissionless environment, enhancing transparency and efficiency through blockchain-backed governance and dispute resolution.
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